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Projects
 

For Providers and Commissioners and Investors

Market analysis

Service and population analysis including referral patterns, demographic breakdowns and trends within markets, benchmarking against national and international norms.

Efficiency analysis

Scrutiny of services, processes, and products to understand factors affecting efficiency and profitability; using comparisons with national and international norms.

Clinical governance

Providing expertise on clinical governance, improving and maintaining safe healthcare. We help develop monitoring frameworks which use outcome measures, process data and financial markers. This includes

  • Clinical Audit service reviews
  • Risk management

Clinical services re-engineering

Sensitive but focused service redesign and re engineering to maximise clinical safety, efficiency and profitability.

Clinical due diligence

Due diligence of care provided using professionals with a thorough knowledge of clinical risk, credentialing requirements, service regulations and of the practical difficulties of healthcare provision.

Change management

Working with former CEOs, and Clinical Directors from the NHS and Private Healthcare sector to help manage clinicians during major service change.

We have experts in preparing new clinical services for launch in ways which meet statutory requirements and minimises disruption.

Project Management, supporting the operational risks in Service Mobilisation and Change Management.

Pricing strategy

Working with you to develop successful price-setting, case selection and service volume management using our understanding of the market, relative costs, risks, profitability and industry-wide norms.

Service development workshops

Facilitated workshops to help health care teams deal with the increasingly complex interface between

  • the Private and Public sectors
  • Providers and commissioners

For Commissioners

NHS and health care insurers

We have worked with NHS commissioners and others in

  • Developing tariffs for specialist services
  • National, Regional and Community health care strategy
  • Policy analysis and business strategy
  • Services reconfiguration
  • IS procurement of services
  • Commissioning for acute services
  • Commissioning for specialist services
  • Performance Management of clinical care
  • Evidence based care
  • Statistical health care modelling
  • Clinical Audit Service reviews
  • PFI, PPP

Slides From Presentations

  1. Commissioning
  2. Markets
  3. Provider Issues
  4. Quality
 

 

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